Word: phalangists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gemayel's statements caused concern in Israel, which has supported the Christian Phalangist forces for years and was particularly close to Bashir Gemayel. Complained one Israeli official: "We felt like saying to him, 'Come off it. Don't exaggerate. Our positions in Lebanon are keeping you alive.' He didn't have to go as far as he did to please the Syrians." Some Western diplomats argued, however, that since Gemayel is dismissed by many Arabs as an Israeli puppet, it was necessary for him to try to reassure his Arab neighbors, particularly the oil-producing...
...existence of the state of Israel that we must join the over 400,000 Israelis--both Jews and Arabs--who joined the Israeli Peace Now movement (a movement led by Israeli army reserve officers) in expressing their revulsion, as loyal Israelis, to their government's role in the brutal Phalangist massacre of Palestinian civilians at the Shatila and Sabra refugee camps in Beirut...
...dare the Lebanese Phalangist militiamen call themselves Christians...
...such horror was the Sept. 14 assassination of President-elect Bashir Gemayel, Amin's younger brother. That atrocity had threatened to engulf Lebanon in sectarian turmoil and gave Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon an excuse to send his troops into West Beirut. Late last week Gemayel's Phalangist Party announced the arrest of a man suspected of planting the deadly bomb in its East Beirut party headquarters. He was described only as someone in contact with "foreign quarters." There were no such leads, however, in the death last week of PL.O. Chief of Staff Saad Sayel, better known...
...worst in Lebanon's string of horrors, the massacre at the two Palestinian refugee camps last month, is still not fully explained. The atrocities have generally been blamed on the Israeli-backed Christian Lebanese Forces, the Phalangist-dominated coalition of Christian militias. The Phalangists adamantly reject that charge. As an angry party spokesman told TIME last week: "The Lebanese Forces command vehemently denies any participation in these acts or of ordering any of its units or its individuals to participate. It is deeply regretted that guilt has been assigned to organizations and individuals before official investigations have been completed...